Posts Tagged ‘NBA’

Bwaaahahaaa! Kev started off with the ’94 Pistons Captain Isaiah, friend to Magic Johnson… This is young I.T. not that ‘Bad Boy’ (plus he was only 5 years old back in 1994). Silly. And it only gets sillier from there.

Kevin Hart and Isaiah Thomas bond on being the short guys. Isaiah Thomas talks about his longest day ever- being the last pick in the NBA draft, losing his tooth and his top 5 Point Guards in the NBA.

ESPN SportsCenter’s three-part series on Paul George’s free agency. Puts perspective on his career ‘road’ with all the curves, bumps, and straightaways. Start with Part 1 above, then get the rest after the jump.

You see the headline. You’ve likely seen the game or heard cheers/lamentations about it by now. Well, relive the joy and/or pain of Game 7 (starring The James Gang aka Cleveland Cavaliers).

The Cavaliers defeated the Celtics, 87-79 tonight in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference Finals to win the series 4-3 and advance to the NBA Finals. LeBron James led all scorers with 35 points (12 in 4th quarter) to go with 15 rebounds, 9 assists and 2 blocks for the Cavaliers.
– NBA

The cat’s out of the bag. The jig is up. The… aw… whatever cliche you wanna use, it appears that the League is on board with actually dealing with the trend of teams tanking seasons it knows has gone unchecked for quite a while. Taking away some incentive for wack teams’ losing, losing badly, and losing often to get favorable picks for next’s season’s rebuild. It’s a start Commish.

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver joins ‘Get Up!’ with Jalen Rose, Mike Greenberg and Michelle Beadle and discusses the NBA’s current issue of tanking, and Silver says he is “worried” it will continue.
– ESPN

It’s a mainstay of All-Star Weekend. And it should be. Did you catch the Slam Dunk Contest this year though? If not, we got you. Distilled down to the good stuff… featuring Donovan Mitchell, the winner, above.

On this clip ep. of Hang Time With Swaggy P, Nick Young will tell you why… Seems like the move is to give the service discount for a CHAMPIONSHIP payout. A’ight. Good luck, Young Nick. B-ball season is upon us. Cash out for the bling!

Nick Young rides in a San Fran classic with Sam Alipour and explains why he signed with the Warriors on a discount deal.
– ESPN

Plain talk from former Celtics standout Ray Allen. Here he is in Shanghai, telling his side of the story. In essence, he is letting viewers & fans know that it wasn’t him wanting to leave Boston, it was the Celtics… not doing what it took to keep him there. No beef with nobody on his side, even though some folks apparently reeeeally had HEAT for him for taking his talents to South Beach.

Ray Allen spoke in an exclusive interview with Tencent’s Lisa Hsu about the Boston Celtics, Miami Heat, Paul Pierce and being a champion. Tencent, ESPN’s partner in China, is hosting its annual Super Penguin Basketball Celebrity Game in Shanghai.
– ESPN

Makes some good points in this interview. Pro sports is BUSINESS, not personal. And there is NO loyalty. The Celts could have dropped Allen, and that would be that; not a tear shed.

Sorta. The news is a couple of days old. But the shock waves are still being felt, and the impact of the collapse of whatever ‘bridge’ between Paul and the Clippers organization… Well, folks are gonna try to put some scale to that in the months to come; no doubt. But the nuances in this clip – Paul’s poised (carefully worded) responses to questions, how joining James Harden on a new team might play out and even how cute Paul’s son’s (little Chris) wishes for his competitive dad “played” out – make for an intriguing watch.

Chris Paul sits down with Shelley Smith and talks about his six-year run with the Clippers, his relationship with James Harden and the challenge of stopping the Warriors.
– ESPN

Lebron James has had yet another stellar season, and talk of him replacing Air Jordan as the heir to the title of Best Baller Of All. His free throw game has been kind of lame (on the low) but he has been trying to fix it. Trying VERY hard. And ESPN has been eyeballing and has taken the time to elucidate every time King James has changed his style up in an attempt to do better at the line.

Alright, by now we know Charles Barkleyis a Hall Of Famer… at chicken wings AND at chastizing co-color commentator Shaquille O’Neal. Oh, and at basketball. Haaa! Barkley has NO chill going at The Diesel! But Shaq pulls NO punches either in this [sort of uncomfortable] on-set ‘disagreement.’

This Inside The NBA segment goes off the rails when Shaq and Charles Barkley threaten to punch and throw chicken wings at each other while trading barbs.
– NBA On TNT

Remember when 2 Chainz took on The Human Highlight Reel aka Dominique Wilkins? Well, go back to that post here… AFTER you watch what we have here above… because Titty Boi 2 Pointer is balling with the Big Leaguers again. And he is giving them enough to where the NBA’ers have to give him some talk back. Get ’em 2 Chainz. Rep the ATL well!

That tape – “Putting It On KG’s Azz” (pause) – is gonna be that fire (um, pause again, just in case). Hahahaaaa!

Bonus behind the scenes trash talk from the pro-ballers after the jump. A whole other thing. Really good though.